What is 3G

What is 3G?

• 3G (third generation) is a collection of international standards and technologies.
• 3G increases efficiency by improving the performance of mobile wireless networks.

1G – 2G – 3G

• 1G – Analog networks
• 2G – Digital wireless phone on circuit switched networks
• 3G – Digital wireless phone on packet switched networks

The Speed

• Up to 144Kbps in a high-speed moving environment (Present)
• Up to 384Kbps in a low-speed moving environment (Present)
• Up to 2Mbps in a stationary environment (Future)

Note: The speed for 2G is 9.6 kbps – 14.4 kbps.

World’s First 3G Netowrk

On May 30, 2001, NTT DoCoMO launched the world first application of W-CDMA, one of the IMT – 2000 global mobile communications standards.

With a maximum downlink transmission speed of 384 kbps.

Personal Scene

• Take on-line shopping for example. You will be able to view and select still images of merchandise, then make payments from your electronic wallet (Digital Catalog Shopping).
• Video Mail
• Mobile Banking
• Digital Information Delivery (Audio and Video)

Home Scene

• Directly connect to a home automation system and be able to turn on/off home appliances such as lighting and air conditioners.
• You will have a greater control of your home security system by displaying security monitor images on your cellular phone terminal display.

Entertainment Scene

• You will be able to view plays, concerts, and sports events in real-time.
• You will be able to download your favorite music, movies, and games at your leisure.
• You will be able to use the electronic encyclopedia, even with photographs.

Business Scene

• Retrieve vital business information from anywhere around the world.
• Conduct video conferencing with branch offices and business partners.
• Send/receive customer and sales data.

Reasons

• Greater efficiency
• Lower development costs
• Backward compatibility with 2G standards
• Key benefits:
• Up to double voice capacity of the network.
• A 10-fold increase in data speeds, from 14.4 kbps to 144 kbps.
• An approximately 50 percent increase battery performance life in standby mode.

Hurdles

• Not all handsets are 3G ready
• Higher revenue consumption
• Network roll-out investment

Revenues From 3G

• Charging for network access and airtime.
• Charging for content and value-added services or transactions (NTT i-mode).

The Impact

• No one can really predict how much impact 3G will have on our lives, but the impact will certainly be great.
• There will be a lot of e-commerce opportunity once the 3G is wildly used; however, finding the one golden opportunity is going to be challenging.

Samsung Monte S5620

Design:

In a world full of affordable touch phones, it becomes increasingly difficult to choose from a vast available variety. But one look at Samsung S5620 and a cursory glance on its features make choice easy.

Its digital experience is worth remembering since it is a combination of glossy touch screen and an intelligent operating system. Samsung S5620 has attractive curve body with sleek surface for comfortable grip. Its 3-inch TFT touch-capacitive screen and having resolution of 240×400(3 inches) resolution with the support of 256k colors.

The Samsung Monte runs Touch Wiz UI 2.0 Plus for efficient and effective touch screen functions. It is also ready with features like accelerometer sensor for UI (User Interface) rotate.

Hardware Features (Processor, Internal & External Memory):

It’s handing out is much better and applications are quite reachable. It is ready with 200 MB domestic memory which is moderately sufficient for some basic memory processing. It is also ready with maximum of 16GB memory by using micro SD card and it can store 1000 entries for phonebook and able of storing call records virtually.

Battery:

It is factory loaded with Standard battery, Li-Ion 960 mAh. As per manufacturer details; The device offers a standby time of up to 769 hours on 2G  and 9 hours and 42 minutes talk time for 2G.The device perfectly suits the local market since it offers cellular 2.5 G networks.

Connectivity Features:

Samsung Monte is 3.5G network capable WIFI phone. It features Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps GPRS/EDGE with capability of 3.5G transmission of HSDPA, 3.2 Mbps. It supports Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP stereo sound capability headset and Micro USB port for PC and micro USB charger connectivity.

Camera and Location Based Capability:

Samsung Monte S5620 is equipped with 3.2 MP (2048 x 1536 pixels) cameras featuring geo-tagging for sharing the travelling experiences with friends and family and different shooting modes like smile detection, panoramas, single, continuous, frame and mosaic.

Samsung Monte S5620 video camera is ready of capturing video with, QVGA@15fps and it is also ready with secondary CIF camera for video calling. It is set with A-GPS as location based value added tool and it supports different location based applications like Google Maps /Google Latitude and Navi expert. Its camera does not offer features like Flashlight.

Applications and Operating System:

Samsung Monte compelling feature of Touch Wiz UI 2.0 Plus provides handy usability of applications. With its latest UI it features home screen swapping, home widgets and live feed widgets. It offers social networking integrations applications like MySpace, Twitter, Bebo and lot of other known social networking applications in the form of widgets and in separate consoles. It is also loaded with Multi Instant messaging capability and provides user chat in real time.

Browser:

The glad news for internet lovers is this that the device is capable of full internet browsing with a Samsung Monte internet browser and all the basic functions are integrated for internet mobility.

Home Screen:

Home screen is capable of finger swapping and widget placement offering multiple alternative home screen windows. It is also ready with task manager for accessing applications by displaying in multiple open applications at different animated style.

Common Applications (Built-in):

Its common applications are:

• Google Maps.
• Google Latitude
• Google Mail client.
• Social Networking applications.
• Widgets like Google Search bar on home screen

Multimedia Support / Formats:

It comes with integrated FM Radio with RDS (radio data system) which facilitate the handset for improve multimedia experience. Its multimedia supports range like audio format support from – MP3/WMA/WAV/RA/AAC/M4A and Video supported formats are: WMV/RV/MP4/3GP video player.

Before you buy, make sure the Box contains the following

• The Samsung Monte 5620
• Charger
• MicroUSB cable
• User Manuals and Software CD
• Headset
• Battery

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